The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should like to state a converse: is not all magic, to the extent that it is successful, geometry?
Rene ThomQuantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance
Rene ThomThe importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.
Rene Thom